Johan Orellana
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The works up in the wall are what I call ‘chronic duos.’ These duos have always appeared in my image making process, I cannot stop seeing them and I cannot stop photographing them. Repetition, or in my case, serendipity, might be considered a photographer’s no no for many. Obsessive, pounding, and over-and-over photographing is tiring an maddening, unless you face it and make something out of it. At times, art school and academia advise you to step away from these “visual fallacies,” as if you were wrong for photographing the same people, place, object, lighting, time of day, season, life event, etc. Academia encourages to look beyond your fallacies and study the canon to use it as a starting point, the righteous way to fix, or “improve,” your natural way of seeing. These six images up in the wall, neglect academia’s encouragement to embrace the egos of canonic visual aesthetics. They are chronic repetitions. They are natural anaphoras.
Couple Dancing, 2020
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
Doves, 2022
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
Meylin and Dayana on July 4th, 2021
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
Emma and Melissa, 2022
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
Taylor and Azlan, 2023
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
Vultures, 2022
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
Archival inkjet print
15.75 by 11.75 in.
40 by 29.85 cm.
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(b. 1998) is an Ecuadorian-born, Spaniard and American-raised lens-based artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. His bodies of work, a mix of photographic approaches, encapsulate moments of high experiential affinity where individuals, objects, and landscapes become interrelated representations of the artist’s visual brain map. He finds interest in visual dichotomies, parallels, intersections, and tangents that, mostly, result in observations about the domestic and public spaces; national historical and family archives; and documentation of a geographical area or community. Orellana received two B.A. degrees, Photography and Spanish Studies, from Bard College. His work has also been featured in Phe Studios, Brooklyn, and the Cristian Anthony Vallejo Memorial Gallery, Las Cruces, and he is a recent Magnum Foundation Fellowship recipient.